Word: delayer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Abubble. For 24 hours there was gloom enough to sink a Bergman tragedy, let alone a comedy. Prince talked with Actress Tammy Grimes about taking over the Johns part- a switch that would have meant a one-week delay of the opening, at a cost of $50,000. "This business is all about taking chances," Prince croaked hoarsely, "but you have to be careful of the odds." But by midweek, Johns was once again abubble. Was Prince headed for a hit, all the more gratifying because of the obstacles? Or were the New York previews portents of disaster? That remained...
...originally slated to approve the plans last Tuesday, but he decided then to delay his approval a week "to consider all the alternatives and serve aesthetic as well as functional needs...
After an eleven-hour delay, the first prisoners freed by the Viet Cong in the South arrived, looking more gaunt and dazed from their captivity than the men from the North. Douglas Kent Ramsey, a civilian adviser captured in 1966, walked off the plane in his prisoner's pajamas and with a subdued, satisfied smile, bowed to welcoming officers-an oddly Oriental touch...
Dave Fichter immediately jumped out to a 3-0 lead before a 15-minute delay because of electrical difficulties, only to lose, 5-4. However, Phillipe Bennett, who finally seems to have found himself after a disappointing first half of the season, came back to win a gutsy 5-3 contest...
...meet the needs of its juvenile population fully and tangibly, not merely with cosmetic solutions. But informed sources say that because of the neglect, ineptitude, and mismanagement of the Cambridge YRB (revealed to them in part by the evaluation cited above), the Governor's Committee has decided to delay funding for the Bureau until March, and has cut the new budget by nearly $90,000. Kids in Cambridge could use that money, and it is a shame if they have to forfeit it, apparently because of the doings of a man who drives in from the suburbs to watch them...